Team G2G

The Union Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (“Meity”) held two rounds of consultations, first with children, parents, esports athletes, gamers and safety and trust organisations on 11th January, 2023 and second with stakeholders from online gaming industry including policy advocacy groups, industry bodies, gaming companies and lawyers on 17th January, 2023. In the meeting with...

A suit filed by the Meghalaya government in the Supreme Court against all other states, union territories and central government seeking review of a previous judgment of the Supreme Court in BR Enterprises v. State of Uttar Pradesh was heard by the Supreme Court on 2nd January, 2023. The state of Meghalaya in its suit is seeking review of its interpretation of Section 5 of the Lotteries...

The Chhattisgarh legislative assembly on 4th January, 2023 passed the Chhattisgarh Gambling (Prohibition) Bill, 2022 (“the Bill”) by voice vote. Earlier, on 31st December, 2022 the Bill was cleared to be introduced in the legislative assembly in a cabinet meeting Chaired by Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel. The Bill was introduced to curb the proliferation of illegal id-based sportsbook and online...

The Union Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology by a notice dated 2nd January, 2023 has issued draft amendments to the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 (“Draft Online Gaming Rules”) to regulate ‘online gaming intermediaries’ and enable their growth in a responsible manner. The Ministry has sought inputs and comments from...

The central government while replying to an unstarred question raised by CongressMember of Parliament Vivek Tankha on 20th December, 2022 confirmed that there is no proposal under its consideration to legalise online gambling and betting apps. The government further noted that in cases related to cyber crimes and crypto assetrelated frauds it has been noticed that online gambling and betting apps...

The Madhya Pradesh government has constituted a high-level taskforce comprising of the state’s chief secretary, high-ranking police officials and officials from Home, Law and Electronics Development Corporation. The taskforce constituted on 16th December, 2022 by a government directive has been formed to examine judicial precedents, legal provisions and technical aspects relating to prevention of...

The Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council, the apex constitutional decision-making body for indirect taxes in the country, held its 48th meeting on 17th December, 2022 but could not take a decision on taxation and valuation clarity for online gaming, casinos and race courses. It may be noted that the eight-member Group of Ministers (GoM) formed by the GSTCouncil to look into the valuation and...

A single judge bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court on 30th November 2022 granted three more months to the state government to come up with a law on online gaming. Justice Vivek Agarwal had on 29th August 2022 granted three months’ time to the state government to come up with concrete action taken against online gaming. Upon being apprised on 30th November 2022 by the state government that a...

Tamil Nadu Governor RN Ravi has not yet granted approval to a Bill passed by the legislative assembly to ban online games of chance, including poker and rummy and reportedly raised queries about the proposed law, namely the Tamil Nadu Online Gambling and Regulation of Online Games Bill, 2022. State Law Minister S. Reghupathy had met the Governor on 30th November, 2022 to address concerns...